Behind Every Successful Man is a Whoa-MAN!

Sometimes I regret not majoring in Economics, since I'm getting a job in business.  I'm cramming to take as many courses as I can before grad classes start in the fall (right now: Intermediate Finance, Corporate Finance, Advanced Financial Accounting. Summer: Managerial Accounting, Mircroeconomics, Statistical Inference and Probability, and Calc 2). Part of me wants to die thinking about it. Sometimes I get really intimidated by all the knowledgeable Econ majors that are sitting around me in my classes. Most of my time lately has been spent convincing myself that I'm super smart and study a lot and am way cooler than a Cookie-Cutter-Econ-Major-Future-I-Banker-Who-Acts-Like-HE-Knows-Everything. Most of the time it works.

I'm starting to feel a lot of overlap between my major studies and the courses I'm currently taking. For example, I majored in History, with a concentration in Women & Gender. I've spent basically all of my undergraduate career studying women throughout history constantly trying to get a leg up on the overpowering white man who thinks he knows how to do everything. I'm currently writing about women who worked during the Civil War, which is interesting because they were all still working under men who were trying to accomplish their own goals and thought little of the women they were employing to work/volunteer. I talked to my mother about the irony of this situation, and she said that it reminded her of that quote. "Behind every successful man is a woman."

So my classes right now are predominantly male. My graduate program is predominantly male. My choice of career is predominantly male. Though, yes, of course, everything is becoming increasingly more female-populated (The majority of the Big Four accounting firms have a section on their website dedicated solely to how they include women in the workforce and what "discussions" and "forums" they're having, etc.).

I'm not sure where I'm going with this except to say that there ain't gonna be no one in front of me. While you econ majors were out on a Tuesday night because you already got hired by some amazing company, I was studying in the library. And we will both get paid the same amount one day.

Sorry for all the hatin.' Men are great, which is why I want to work with them. I believe in a world where presidents are women, 50 percent of our CEOs are women, and 50 percent of our domestic engineers are men. And I hope to contribute to that change in some small way.

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We will all be changed
Seryn